JACOBIN MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW

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JACOBIN MAGAZINE (June 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Speculation’ – The house always wins…

“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”

— Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867)

“Along with a lot of worthless nonsense, the bubbles of the 1920s gave us some durable housing, highways, and a radio broadcasting infrastructure.”

We Have Always Lived in the Casino

John Maynard Keynes warned that when real investment becomes the by-product of speculation, the result is often disaster. But it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Money for Nothing

Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.

The House Always Wins

The gaming industry is turning every smartphone into a casino — and it’s destroying more lives than ever.

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.

We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal

Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election

Misty Copeland Changed Ballet. Now She’s Ready to Move On.

Finance, Investing, Magazines, Retirement

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 – INVESTMENT VIEWS

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Internet Interrupted’ – The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.-

Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Could Go With It.

The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.

X’s New Show Was Postponed After a Barron’s Investigation

“Going Public,” a show hosted by X, allows viewers to invest in start-ups. Two of the featured entrepreneurs have a checkered past, Barron’s found.

These Are the Hottest Bond ETFs This Year—and for Good Reason

Treasury-bill ETFs are rapidly gaining in popularity and challenging money-market funds and bank deposits as a place for retail investors to park cash.

This Vanguard Economist Won’t Rule Out 9% Bond Yields

Joe Davis, the firm’s global chief economist, says rates could shoot up if the benefits of AI don’t outweigh the costs of the deficit in coming years.